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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.
(b) They have been around for a very long time.
(c) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.
(d) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.

2. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?
(a) Become servants to white men and women.
(b) Declare war on England.
(c) Become Christian.
(d) Run away into the desert.

3. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?
(a) They refused it.
(b) With gratitude.
(c) They were angry.
(d) They did not understand.

4. What does Captain Fremantle want?
(a) He wants to teach them about white men and their society.
(b) He wants their permission to name the area.
(c) He wants them to put some clothes on.
(d) He wants them to bring him and his men some food.

5. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) A train.
(b) An army of white men.
(c) White men droving a large herd of cattle.
(d) White men on a hunting trip.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?

2. How is this carried out?

3. What is the Canning Stock Route?

4. What is the Mardudjara?

5. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?

(see the answer key)

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